Abe Fellowship Program 2014-2015

Kaori Hayashi
Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in
Information Studies
University of Tokyo
"Reconfiguring the Role of Professional
Journalism: A Comparative Study of Media's Public Rationale in the US and Japan
in the Digital Age"

Shinsuke Ikeda
Professor, Institute of Social and Economic
Research
University of Osaka
"Self-Control and Consumer Behaviors Under
Depletable Willpower: Theory and International Evidence"

Phillip Y. Lipscy
Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science
Stanford University
"The Politics of Energy and Climate Change"

Toru Morotomi
Professor, Graduate School of Economics
Kyoto University
"Future of Corporate Taxation: A Comparative
Study of Influences of Globalization and Competitiveness Considerations on Corporate
Tax Reforms in Japan and U.S."

Noriko Porter
Instructor, Human Development
Washington State University
"Comparing Stress of Mothers Who Raise Children
with Autism between Japan and USA: A Mixed Methods Study"

Jordan Sand
Professor, Department of History/Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Georgetown University
"A Tokyo Model? Lessons for Contemporary Asian
Megacities from Local Microhistories of Housing and Infrastructure Development
in Tokyo"

Jaganath Sankaran
Postdoctoral Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of
Government
Harvard University
"Fostering Military Stability and Nuclear
Nonproliferation in Northeast Asia"

Kay Shimizu
Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science
Columbia University
"Liberalization and the Distancing of Politics:
the Case of Agricultural Reforms in Japan"

Daisaku Yamamoto
Associate Professor, Geography and Asian Studies
Colgate University
"Coping with the Crisis of Public Facilities and
Services in Nuclear Host Localities: U.S.-Japan Comparison Based on the
Livelihood Approach"